Technique
- Start in a Plank position with your feet against a wall.
- Walk your feet up, until your body is horizontal.
- Lower yourself down until your chest lightly touches the floor.
- Push yourself back up until your arms are straight.
Form tips
- Keep your body straight, core engaged and a posterior Pelvic tilt.
- Press your feet more into the wall or increase the friction to make it easier; decrease the friction with the wall to make it more difficult.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Shoulders
- Chest
- Triceps
Secondary
- Biceps
- Forearms
- Serratus anterior
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Anterior deltoid
- Pectoralis major (clavicular head)
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Triceps brachii (medial head)
- Triceps brachii (lateral head)
- Serratus anterior
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
Progressions
Advanced tuck planche pushup
Elite
Bent-arm tuck planche
Advanced
Regressions
Tuck planche pushup
Advanced
Wall plank
Intermediate
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